After a rough run through the opening round against a pesky Cincinnati Cyclones squad, the Fort Wayne Komets brushed aside the Utah Grizzlies in the East Coast Hockey League Western Conference semi-finals, finishing off a second round sweep in Utah. After capturing wins in the first two games at Fort Wayne, the Komets grabbled a commanding lead with a 3-1 win
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info When the dust settles on a hockey season, the short period in between campaigns is usually pumped up with excitement of new teams being added or unfortunate news of teams moving or leaving the league. The ECHL gave a great indication of status quo with earliest release of a new
Six Midwest-based teams started the East Coast Hockey League post season but one round in only two remain. The Missouri Mavericks and Fort Wayne Komets are the top two seeds heading into the Western Conference semi-finals meaning both have home ice advantage against the Allen Americans and Utah Grizzlies respectively. But they definitely took different paths through the first round. The Mavs have
Jamie Schaafsma, a veteran center from Ontario stepped up as the series hero, scoring a pair of first period tallies which was all the Fort Wayne Komets to finally dispatch the Cincinnati Cyclones in the seventh and final game of a thrilling East Coast Hockey League Western Conference Quarter-Final series. When the final buzzer sounded,
The Midwest was well represented among the eight ECHL West Conference Quarterfinal qualifiers this season with four teams reaching the playoff stage. However, they wound up facing each other in first round battles — the most exciting one still to be settled between the second seeded Fort Wayne Komets and number seven Cincinnati Cyclones. Meanwhile,
A couple of five goal nights helped the Kalamazoo Wings improve its playoff perspective this past weekend. The Wings used back-to-back wins at the Wings Event Center against the North Division leading Toledo Walleye to get within seven points of the eighth and final playoff position. That seven point spread doesn’t sound nearly as rough
